Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 49



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Episode 49. The Reason I Live 4

Doing nothing while being frustrated is not the Daton way, nor the Bark way. It is not the Echacado way.

“If I am neither a Daton nor a Bark, I will neither live like a Daton nor like a Bark. Don’t stop me.”

“No one will stop you. We respect you.”

“shit.”

So Echacado lived on a ranch between the deep grasslands and the forest, a place he could not enter anyway.

It is not exactly a good place for Datons to live, and is considered the territory of the Quako tribe and the Gigaguard tribe of the Great Forest.

The Bark tribe, whose metabolism becomes more active when the magical pressure is high, becomes stronger but has a shorter lifespan, and the Daton tribe, whose magical pressure is low, lives longer but becomes weaker. In that ambiguous place, Echakado’s physical ability was the highest.

“It’s not that I don’t live like Daton and Bark, but it seems like I just live here because it’s more efficient······.”

“What a coincidence!”

Anyway, Echakado surprisingly makes a name for himself here.

Although the Bark hunters sometimes come from the north, they can’t get past the Great Forest to the ranch because the magic pressure is too high. But Echacado was someone who was vaguely on the border and could get past it, and he was a great hunter compared to Daton.

As a result, the Quako tribe hires Echacado to be their hunter, tracking down and catching dragons that they cannot catch when they attack their ranch.

“The dragon hunter has finally come this way.”

“I’ll catch you if you pay me properly. What kind of dragon is it?”

This is also something that Echacado is certain that a large dragon cannot appear here. Echacado begins to doggedly pursue and hunt small and medium-sized dragons, eventually becoming famous throughout the ranch.

“Hey, Dragon Hunter? Please take me as your disciple!”

“Huh? Disciple? To such a poor hunter? Go up north and learn from the other Bark tribe.”

“It’s too far. My family was captured and killed by dragons. If it weren’t for you, there’s no one who can show me how to get revenge.”

“Fuck. Fine. I’ll just teach you the basics. I hope you’re better than me.”

He also had disciples. He also had an organization. Once he had disciples, there was no reason not to accept them, so Echakado became the leader of the hunter organization in the north.

He also received a medal from Datang. Echakado was very happy to receive it, but he was secretly disappointed when he saw the contents of the medal.

“But I’m not a Daton.”

“Still, Echakado is our best friend.”

But his family was nowhere to be found. Echakado was secretly saddened by this. He must have felt even more so because the medal he received was given to an outsider, not a member of his family.

So 15 years. Echakado was in his prime until he was in his mid-30s, and Datang was distracted by the dragon invasion. As a result, the military organization led by Echakado continued to grow.

And in Mainilun a strange discussion was taking place.

“Will you accept my friend Echakado as Daton?”

All the Minnie Runs look at Olchan in surprise.

It wasn’t the content of the proposal that was the problem, but the proposal itself that surprised me. All Chaun had never expressed an opinion of his own for a very long time.

Does this mean he has come out of his terrible depression? asks Lapin cautiously.

“What do you mean?”

“You guys kept saying that Echakado from the north was really great. Thanks to him, the number of livestock and people killed by dragons decreased. I’ve met him before. He wanted to be a Daton, not a Bark. The Gigad can’t be mixed-blooded, but he’s mixed-blooded and has a few children. That’s great. Let’s count him as a Daton.”

The Minnie Runs discuss what the scope of ‘Daton’ is and come to a rough conclusion.

Daton is derived from the word family, meaning a member of the family. And by family, I mean at least people related by blood.

So according to that logic, Echakado is a mixed race, so he is Daton. Even though he can’t use spirits because of his Bark blood, he is still a Daton.

“In the first place, even those who have been tattooed (those who have been under the spell of Hanjutamal) cannot use spirits.”

“That’s right. There’s no reason why I shouldn’t accept that guy as my partner.”

It was roughly summarized like this. However, Castle Laurent, who had been listening to the story, tilted his head.

“Wait a minute, wouldn’t that be a little weird?”

“yes?”

“As you said, there was absolutely no reason for Echakado not accept that hunter as a Daton. Who on earth said that Echakado was not a Daton?”

Everyone just looked at one person.

“All cold?”

“No kid. I never said anything like that. I just told him that he couldn’t accept the power of the spirits. His blood is thick with Bark. That’s all I said.”

Now that I think about it, I’m confused about the next person, too.

“Huh? Now that I think about it, this is a bit strange. When I think about it, I definitely thought that guy was a ‘Daton who couldn’t use the power of the spirits’ back then, right? That’s why I warned him to be careful of Hanjutamal.”

Soon, Ol Chaun vents his anger and frustration.

“What kind of chewy is not a car, ‘If you can’t use the power of the spirit,’ the baby is not a car?

Everyone looks at each other, puzzled.

The Datang has grown too large. Now, the All Chaun of Mainilun has no way to control the individual Datons. They haven’t realized it yet.

Soon, it will become a problem that surfaces above water.

There is a resource in the world that is secretly ignored.

Administrative power. It is a resource that increases as time goes by.

In short, it wasn’t because people in pre-modern times were stupid that they roughly measured taxes by looking at the area of ​​land or calculating the population. They just didn’t have the administrative power to do so.

Administrative power is determined by the number of people involved, systematic skills, strict discipline, and bureaucrats who do not corrupt along the way.

In short, if the number of people is small, the technology and systems are poor, and the bureaucrats commit fraud along the way, administrative power will eventually be wasted and the country will not function properly.

That’s because the country as an institution is so big. Datang is also a ridiculously large area.

There is no way that the All Chauns and bureaucrats of Mainilun can handle it.

Because of this, they have ruled the villages through a village chief called Dutan and a lower-level official called Ditit. And since Dutan can never disobey Ol Chaun, this system seems perfect.

Is that really true?

An unstoppable being. An existence that has clearly lived for tens of thousands of years. The interval between the Main Nirans is also thousands of years, and even the second Main Niran is said to have lived for a thousand years when he was a Main Niran.

Such a god-like being. That powerful force gives strength to the discipline that is conveyed in words. The values ​​that he spoke of are also the same.

A powerful celestial body bends space-time around it with its gravity.

The scope that was defined as Daton because all Chauns are family has been fixed as a race that ‘uses the power of spirits’ and lives long due to the appearance of other races. This applies to other races as well as Datons themselves.

Since when? At least hundreds of years ago. It’s a deeply ingrained custom. It’s common sense.

To the extent that even when All Chaun says, “Daton is not someone who uses the power of the spirits, he is just a member of the family that All Chaun has chosen,” people ask back, “Huh? Since when did it change like that?”

It didn’t change from any point in time. It just changed that way.

In that respect, Echakado has been subject to unreasonable discrimination.

The orders of the lofty Mainilun, Ol Chaun, are delivered through words and drums in a manner that is ‘unintentional’, ‘innocent’, and ‘most reasonable to them’.

This could be said to be something that happened by chance in the process of processing the original words of the person named Ol Chaun, who used to speak in a sacrificial manner, into something sacred······.

“Echakado the Dragon Hunter! I will convey the agreement reached by Mainilun and its master, Ol Chaun, and the great Mainiluns who inhabit it!”

The story that Ostrich Pabal told is passed on to Dutan from a nearby village. There have already been two distortions: Ostrich Pabal and Dutan.

“In recognition of your merits, we now accept you as a member of our Datang and Daton. Even though you cannot use spirit magic, the merciful All Chaun wishes to make you a Dutan, not a Deutan. Come down and obey his command!”

Here, Echakado had the impression that it was unlikely that Olchaun would have really said that, since he was a very easygoing person.

But, I thought it was a trap. I didn’t think they would have a reason to deceive me, so I decided to go down while listening to the disciples’ shouts of ‘Hehehe!’

For him, a magnificent oxcart rather than an ostrich float was given. Echacado rode down the path in this magnificent oxcart.

‘It’s finally Daton. Yeah. It took a long time.’

15 years. How much longer will you live? 50s, maybe 60s. That’s all you’ll live for, but you’ve accomplished a lot.

Minenirun is bad, but what can I do? I really found my family. Echakado is happy.

“Oh. It’s a leopard.”

And as he descends, Echacado sees a creature he had never seen in the north. A large feline. Smaller than a lion.

Echacado secretly envied the creature that raised its young. It was not that it didn’t have children, but no one considered it a parent.

Du-tan, who was following along, shouts at the leopard he met without thinking.

“Rekappa Seral!”

The fire explodes. And the leopard is hit by the fire and burns to death with one blow. Echacado screams in shock.

“What the fuck are you doing!”

“ok?”

Echakado jumps down from the cart and approaches quickly. The leopard dies instantly. The cubs are in shock at seeing their burning mother and start crying and rolling around. Some of them run away, but the ones that are too young will be crushed by their mother’s corpse if they continue like this.

“shit!”

Echakado desperately pushes away the burning leopard and rescues the cub. But after saving it, Dutan becomes angry.

“What are you doing!”

“What? I’m a hunter, but I’m not crazy. You’re the one who’s crazy enough to throw a fireball at any animal!”

Then, Dutan takes a deep breath and becomes angry.

“Do I deserve to hear that just because I burned a leopard, not any other creature?”

“What did he do wrong?”

“When All-Knowing brought fire to the world, it was a leopard that first attacked, and it was that accursed creature that ate us when we suffered in the Hanjutamal!”

“It’s those guys, not this guy!”

“No, all leopards are the same. What are you talking about! It is a symbol of evil! It is something that should disappear from this world!”

“That’s wrong. Who says something like that!”

“The great All-Chan said so!”

You didn’t say that, but I guess you really believe it.

“Then the whole thing is wrong!”

At that moment, Du-tan is so shocked by this blasphemous sound that he falls down.

Echacado climbs upside down with the leopard cub, abandoning his lifelong dream of becoming a daton. His honor. The honor of being the leader of a group of hunters. He throws it all away.

What will become of his fate?

How will the all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-eat soups change?

It will definitely be a road you’ve never been on before.